Attaching DAW for debugging in vscode

[faressc]

Hi there,

I am thinking of changing to vscode for developing, but I am facing the following issue: I don’t manage to attach a DAW for debugging the VST3 versions.
I use cmake for building and the debugging works fine with the standalone version. I would really appreciate any help for setting this up

Cheers,
Fares

[faressc]

I found a way to get the debugging with a host DAW running thanks to the following post:

@ImJimmi

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "(lldb) Launch",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${command:cmake.launchTargetPath}",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "environment": [
                {
                    "name": "PATH",
                    "value": "$PATH:${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}"
                }
            ],
            "MIMode": "lldb",
            "logging": {
                "moduleLoad": false
            }
        }
    ]
}

Then I just replaced this line:

"program": "${command:cmake.launchTargetPath}",

with

"program": "/Applications/Ableton Live 10 Suite.app",

for debugging with Ableton on MacOS for example.

Still I am wondering if I really need to write a new launch.json file, when I start a new project or if there is a more elegant possibility?

[anthony-nicholls]

@faressc

Still I am wondering if I really need to write a new launch.json file, when I start a new project or if there is a more elegant possibility?

I might be wrong, but I think that is the point of ${command:cmake.launchTargetPath} you can then set the target in VSCode.

https://vector-of-bool.github.io/docs/vscode-cmake-tools/debugging.html

[faressc]

Thanks for the hint! This works for the standalone. For debugging VST with a DAW I needed to specify the host program for the plugins as I mentioned above. But yes it looks like this is as much automated target debugging generation as we can get with Cmake and vscod(ium).